Console gamers: How can you play shooter games like GTA after

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

you've used the mouse for shooters on a PC? :shrug: I can't stand it, and as much as I love GTA no way could I play GTA:SA without waiting for the PC port.

[name not needed]

1. I hate it.

I'd much rather be able to use a keyboard and mouse on my Xbox. If only there was a way.

[NuttyFluffers]

2. the same reason i can't understand pc gamers and shooters.

i don't understand how you use keyboard and mouse for shooting games instead of joysticks. so much easier to use a joystick, preferrably double joysticks.

been playing shooting games faaaar longer before kb/m became the standard and never got into FPS games. i still have no clue how you dig kb/m over controllers for games.

i can adjust, but give me a controller anyday over a kb/m. if mapped right (critical) faster hotkeys and intuitive controls makes me far more comfortable (and faster) with controllers than kb/m. but the communities habits are hard to break, they'll stick with kb/m for everything if they can, not just FPS and RTS games (ugh, some like kb/m for platformers!!! heresy!)

[lazarus]

3. I go both ways

I want the kb/m for FPS and RTS, but desperately need the controller for platformers.

My 5 button scroll mouse makes FPS games a snap. Scroll up and down to select weapons, I've got five options with one hand, and many more with the other. Can't imagine doing FPS any other way.

RTS? You need the quick scrolling capacity of a mouse, IMO. Plus hotkeys (I'll use 15-20 keys for most RTS games, more than any controller I've ever seen).

[NuttyFluffers]

4. oooh! a 5 button mouse! k, that's good.

that's just a trackball with more buttons :D cool, that i can deal with. that'd be very useful.

but i can't stand RTS in general. they always seem hindering. i *know* i can outthink the AI but the controls are such a pain to do things quickly. and the AIs are bloody cheap. if there was a way to use a palette/stylus with multiple stylii. give me two stylii and i'll go buckwild on those RTS games. perhaps if apple gets their heads together they can make a stylus based RTS.

[lazarus]

5. it's optic, too

no ball at all. I desperately need it, as I have arthritis and can't do too much mouse moving. I set the sensitivity pretty high, and I don't have to move very much to get good reactions.

Works on a Mac, too, iirc. Microsoft IntelliEye, I think it's called.

[Occulus]

11. There's a very specific reason why we use it

We use it for fast turns- 90 degrees or more. That, and I find there's a much finer level of control possible with the KBD/mouse combination. But, to each his own.

I don't think you'll find dual analog stick pads at QuakeCon, though. Or many LAN parties. :D

[slutticus]

6. It's hard, but you get used to it.

Nothing beats a mouse and a keyboard, but what can you do?

[AZCat]

7. There's a device for the XBox and PS2

This device allows XBox and PS2 users to plug in a mouse and keyboard for gaming (especially FPS).

[7th_Sephiroth]

8. gta isint first person

the aiming is lock on and shoot with auto-aim

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

9. But on the PC you can turn off auto-aim. I guess you might need the auto

aim on the console. Are all the shooters like Halo etc. auto aim on consoles?

[7th_Sephiroth]

10. no they arent

you have one analog stick that controlls motion and another that controlls aim

[Idylle Moon Dancer]

12. Actually Halo is a little bit.

If your reticle remains sufficiently close to a target, it centers
on the target automatically. Sometimes helpful, sometimes annoying.

[DrGonzoLives]

13. I HATE using mouse/keyboard

But that's just me.

[realisticphish]

14. i hate shooter games on the pc

can't stand em. dont know why; i think it comes from playing a lot of halo on xbox

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[SlavesandBulldozers]

15. kb/m forever

death to the console.